Saturday evening and girlfriend is working in another town and four year old daughter has been left to stay the night with grand parents. Sitting down to do some things with Virtual ANS. One last look at Twitter just to see that there is a new BETA version for the next update! That is my idea of a perfect Saturday night right there!

Still only Beta for the Windows. Linux and OSX but it is supposed to be released soon for Android. It comes with two very cool upgrades plus one practical and one as a bonus.First of all now my dear friends it comes with the possibility to do many layers / tracks.So now you can create whole multi layered songs. It is now a Virtual ANS multitrack!!!Amazing.

One of the things that I like a lot is to use it more for traditional compositions with recordings of instruments or cutting out / copy / paste / paint clear notes. The problem is that everything gets on top of other parts and it is hard to do more complex arrangements. Now that is super easy, use different sounds on different layers. Plus copy and paste parts directly in the application between the different layers.Well it so much possibilities more that opens up with multi layers... and my desire before is that you had one more layer to copy and paste from so thank you so much Mr Nightradio for giving not one but many layers to work with!The second big thing is that you can create your own brushes super easy inside the Virtual ANS now. Either just choose an area with the sound that you want make a brush and voila there you have a new brush to use repeatedly or just import a image as a brush directly.This is just great!Lastly now something that will save you a lot of grief and was a little bit surprised that this was not in the first version... multiple undos. With just one undo and especially working on a telephone or tablet, it was too easy to mess up and lose things you were working on now you have up to 16 undo levels if you want. You decide how many in one of the menus.As a bonus it also comes with three more effects to use - Gain, Noise and Vibrato...With these updates there is not much more that feels like it is much missing anymore except in my eyes one thing, which would be to be able to loop portions of the sound / picture, even better yet if you could loop just the selected area. This would speed up the process especially if you work on longer pieces or looking for good brushes.One other thing would be good but not too difficult to work around and that would be to mix the volume and pan on the different layers. Having said that, it is easy to export layer by layer and import to another multi track and do it there. Keeping it in Android it can be imported into samplers of for example Caustic / SunVox / G.Stomper (depending on the the length of the samples and the capacity of the respective samplers. But think that all three mentioned can take more or less longer samples...) or into the two better multi track apps that exists- Audio Evolution Mobile / nTrack Studio.In either case if Virtual ANS was a great thing now it is crazy. Just to create on different layers is... To make brushes and try them out directly is...

If you do not know anything about Virtual ANS be ready for something different and for me one of the more exciting applications you can get for your device ( you can read more about the app if you go to the sidelines and click Virtual ANS )... but as said this Beta is not ready for Android yet but get the current version or download the Beta for your computer.